Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend

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Summary: Innacurate and embarrasing
Review: This has got to be one of the most inacurate books out there.First off the man can't label pictures correctly.Did he not take the time or care enough to label them correct?.There is nothing new here maybe except for a few odds and ends.He is just basically going into things weve already read inother books,trying to put them into his own words and such.This is indeed embarrasing--for the author

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Summary: Next time, I'll edit for you, Davis. You deserve better!
Review: This is the first Morrison biography I ever read. I found it readable and very worthy, apart from some errors that should have been picked up by the editor. For example, the false statement that Morrison arrived in Paris in June 1971. I also remember Davis quoting a Doors review from the LA Times and saying that was their first mention in mainstream press. But Davis had mentioned another LA Times Doors review about 100 pages earlier. These kinds of errors break the readers' flow and inevitably raise questions about authorial reliability. However, for me, they were overshadowed by the fascinating tale of Morrison's rise and fall. I look forward to reading Hammer of the Gods and Patricia Butler's biography of Pamela Courson.

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Summary: A solid, long-overdue & thorough bio on Jim Morrison
Review: With the many other books out there on Jim Morrison and the Doors, you have to wade through a lot of "fertilizer" to get to the real facts. Not so with this book by Stephen Davis. He clears up a lot of the myths, half-truths and legends surrounding this remarkable '60's icon of rock. Unfortunately, he also stirs up some new ones with unfounded hints & suggestions that Jim may have been an experimental homosexual. Beyond this scantily supported bombshell though, the book really delivers the goods on his life and times before, with, and after the Doors.